On Fri, May 8, 2015 at 8:18 AM, Samuel Greenfeld
wrote:
> You might laugh but when the OLPC Association was actively answering bids
> for laptops, this dance happened all the time.
Also known as "sales calls", never a strong point with FLOSS projects, and
one of the reasons so many Intel Class
The media launch and multi-language press release has been scheduled
for March 16th, when release notes, the PR phone number, and the final
press mailing lists including the education publications will be
ready.
I will have Tuesday's marketing meeting topics & deliverables mail
ready sometime toda
re spreading the word:
http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/marketing/2009-March/000419.html
Monday, March 16th, 9:00 AM EST
thanks
Sean
On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 3:31 PM, Sean DALY wrote:
> The media launch and multi-language press release has been scheduled
> for March 16th, when release
Martin - I'm in Brussels and have 6 XOs, assorted netbooks (Asus/Acer)
and an Olidata JumPc Classmate next time you wish to test SoaS
thanks
Sean
Sugar Labs Marketing Coordinator
On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 12:45 PM, Martin Langhoff
wrote:
> Yesterday we had the 2nd meeting in Brussels -- this tim
I'm no maven, but the last time I was dealing with quoting issues with
"$*" expansion I had found this article helpful:
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-bash-parameters.html?ca=drs-
Sean
On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 10:37 PM, Martin Langhoff
wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have a simple shell scri
If the rushes are in PAL DV, this may be useful:
$ ffmpeg2theora rawfootage.dv -x 352 -y 288 -v 2 -S 0 -K 128 -c 1 -H
32000 -o rawfootage.ogv
Sean
On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 5:32 PM, Seth Woodworth wrote:
> I've been emailing back and forth with Charbax, he's limited for bandwidth
> while still fi
Very interesting!
I saw this too:
http://blog.wizzy.com/post/OLPC-and-Classmate-in-Nigeria
The wizzydigital.org website seems dated, is it an active project?
I couldn't find any technical information about the solution, although
it seems to be based on FOSS
Sean
On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 1:18
Thanks for that Sameer
I'm sure that color scheme isn't accidental :-)
They say it's Debian-based
Simon - Do you think it would be useful or interesting to borrow one
of these for LinuxTag? Could you or someone on the sugar-devel team
possibly contact them and see if they are coming, if so (and
A website counterpart to Sugar, whether demo or live extension, could
multiply our impact by allowing teachers and parents (not to mention
journalists) to discover and try Sugar without the barriers of
downloading an ISO, loading a stick and configuring BIOS, or obtaining
an XO.
I concur that the
My understanding is that although Windows is available, there have
been no sales; deployments have preferred Sugar.
On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 2:21 PM, Sascha
Silbe wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 07:45:58AM -1000, Mitch Bradley wrote:
>
>>> """
>>> For this reason, Sugar needs a wider basis, to ru
YouTube video can be encapsulated H.264, On2 VP6, or the older
Sorenson Spark. So it's important to try to test the same file.
H.264, the most recent addition, is very processor-intensive...
Sean
On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 1:33 AM, Mikus Grinbergs wrote:
> When I try to run mplayer on os33 with t
creates lots of work for me clarifying geese, ganders and goslings for
journalists you mean ;-)
Sean
On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 5:34 PM, Martin Langhoff
wrote:
> Well, at least that gets the journalists off our backs and chasing a
> wild goose, so we can focus on getting XO-1.5 (and in my case XS 0
as a former audio engineer, I was surprised recently to see a unit
like the Samson R16 for sale:
http://www.samsontech.com/products/productpage.cfm?prodID=2009
which uses an SD Card as its main memory. 8 track linear PCM audio
record, 16 track playback.
Of course, it's a case of several large fi
I had heard of dcraw
(http://www.guillermoluijk.com/tutorial/dcraw/index_en.htm) but never
used it except once (not on XO), called from imagemagick as a delegate
like this:
$ convert dcraw8:image.crw image.png
Sean
On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 3:26 PM, Benjamin M. Schwartz
wrote:
> Bastien wrote:
A few years ago with a colleague we crafted a stress test with
imagemagick on a small web server.
First we generated a series of fairly small but complex bitmap images
(as I recall we used dumped frames from a video). The concept was to
build a tiled file from the smaller images, then rotate the r
Yay for imagemagick Bernie !
can there be colors in the logo?
Sean
On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 8:35 PM, Walter Bender wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 1:52 PM, Bernie Innocenti wrote:
>> Instead of sending a monster 900KB patch to the list, here's how I got
>> the job done:
>>
>> cd images
>> f
:
> On Tue, 2010-04-20 at 12:00 +0200, Sean DALY wrote:
>> Yay for imagemagick Bernie !
>>
>> can there be colors in the logo?
>
> Since everything else, including Fedora Remix logo, is rendered in a
> subtle grey scale, I thought that something colorful in the corner
Hi Ian,
I have purchased a Wedo kit and installed the latest version of Turtle
Blocks-107, just one question: you mention a "usb" folder but at the
link below I only saw a "udev" folder, is that the one you mean?
Also is the best way to copy these files with the command line? Do I
need to set any
Hi Sridhar,
Tom Gilliard has done some fabulous work with VMs, see:
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Emulator_image_files
Sean
On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 4:41 PM, Sridhar Dhanapalan
wrote:
> I've been investigating ways to replicate an XO's experience in a
> virtual machine (VirtualBox), so that it
Sridhar - only a few of those images are SoaS. The others are VMs in
other distros, or in Fedora non-SoaS. Tom could perhaps advise you in
building a VM that will closely resemble your XO build.
Sean
On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 4:03 PM, Sridhar Dhanapalan
wrote:
> On 16 May 2011 20:30, Sean D
http://www.sugarlabs.org/index.php?template=press&article=20090918&language=english#20090918
This followed uninformed misstatements in the media at the time by
some FSF members.
FSF influence on K-8 education departments is minimal, but I agree
more can always be done. We need to be in touch with
On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 1:56 AM, David Farning
wrote:
> The highest rate of progress happens when the parties focus on getting
> ahead of the other guys rather then when they focus on holding others
> back. Progress tends to stop when one party gets so far ahead that it
> is not worth it for others
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